Metallic grave vault.



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.UNITED sTATEs PATENT OFFICE.

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METALLIC GRAVE-VAULT.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented ly 18, 1911.

Application led Inch 12, 1906, Serial No. 305,441. Benewed-Apri1 10, 1911. Serial No. 820,098.

To all whom 'it may concern:

.1 3e it known that 1JOHN E. MYERS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Springfield, in the county of Clark and State o Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Metallic Grave-Vaults, of which the following is a specication, reference being .had therein to the ccompanyin drawings.

his invention relates to improvements in metallic grave vaults and the object of the invention istwo-fold, namely, to prevent the upper part or top of the vault from giving down, llattenin or losing 'its shape under the weight of 51e superimposed earth, and also to thereby prevent the breaking of the cement or other material used in liermetically sealing the-top to the body of the-vault,

the shape and position of the to is lost under such weight or pressure. hese objects are carried into practice by the instrumentalities hereinafter more fully described and particularly pointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification and on which like reference figures indicate corresponding parts, Figure 1 is a longitudinal sectional view of a vault containing my improvements; Fig. 2, a detail perspective View, inverted, of one of the arch-braces; Fig. 3, a /transyerse sectional view of the vault also showing my improvements applied thereto.

`The numeral 1 indicates the general body of a `netallic grave vault of any approved type, having end flanges 2- and side anges 3 riveted or otherwise secured thereto as indicated at 4. These flanges together with the ends and sides of the body of the vault constitute a gutter adapted to contain a quantity of cement or other filling material, indicated at 5 for the4 purpose of making an air-tight and water-tight joint between the body and top of the vault, thus hermetically sealing the joint between them.

The top is designated by the numeral 6 and extends down into the gutter and the contained cement or lling material. The top has flanges 7 at its ends and ilanges 8 at its sides which overlap 4the iianges 2 and 3 respectively as shown. The -cement or filling also the top has been found to give Wag under the weight of the superimposed cart resting on the top. In such cases the to s bend down, lose their shape, spread their side-walls and attached ilanges and. break or loosen the cement joint, causing it to leak. It is to prevent this giving way of the top and this injury or destruction of the joint that my invention is designed. It consists in so constructing the ttop 0f the vault that it cannot Aand will n t sulfer this loss of shape and incur spreading, but will hold' up a amst the weight ofthe earth upon it under cases of deep g'raves and earth ofa heavy character, such as Where clay and stones prevail, as in cases of shallower aves and lighter soil. Accordingly I uti ize as the preferred means to the end in view, a series of arch-braces shown at '9 and composed, preferably, of iron bent into channel form so as to have a dat body rtioii 10 and side tianges 11. These archraces have a general curved arch section 12 and uprightV end sections 13 and are provided with rivet holes 14 in the portion 10. These arch-braces are fitted to the under ,or inner side of the top and to the 'inner surface of the side-walls of the top as shown more clearly in Fig. 3. They a're riveted to the side-walls by rivets 15, passing through the holes 14 and are also secured by meansV of clips or brackets 16 adapted to receive the ends of the archbraces, and themselves secured by rivets 17 which pass through some of the holes 14 1n the braces. These brackets are further secured by rivets 18 whereby the strength of a plurality of rivets 17 and 18 is utilized, while only one rivet of the several passes through the arch-brace itself.

I wish it to be understood that I do not desire to be limited to the details of construction shown and described, for obvious modifications will occur to a person skilled in the art.

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